Acting Demo Reels

Take your career to the next level! Our reel service is a comprehensive process of creating original material that showcases your work as an actor ON film. We will work with you one on one to help you capture the essence of the characters and types you are hoping to be seen for and cast as.

We will take your footage from whatever projects you’d like to use and create an edit that features your performance, tailored around featuring you, the actor, for use on Breakdown Services, IMDB, and more!

THE DEMO REEL TEAM

Curt is a Master Instructor and coach for Gray Studios and director of Creative Operations for the school. He heads up the Make-A-Movie film program and has overseen the production over 80+ short films, writing and directing over half of them himself. He is also head of the demo reel program. Curt is a Los Angeles based actor, writer, improviser, and singer from Dallas, Tx, best known for his four season recurring role as Nick the Warbler on Fox’s hit show Glee. He led the Warblers in Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl. Recent TV credits include Stuck in the Middle on Disney, Criminal Minds on CBS, Game Shakers on Nickelodeon , NCIS: LA on CBS, Code Black on CBS, Crazy Ex Girlfriend on CW, Switched at Birth on ABC Family/Freeform, and The Get (CBS Pilot starring Brad Garrett & Amy Brenneman). He can be seen in the indie feature film comedy Spare Change. He can be seen in a variety of digital series including Buffering the Series, Brian Remus Science Genius, Inside the Extras Studio, The Fine Brother’s Last Moments of Relationships, Shipwrecked Comedy’s Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party and the upcoming comedy series from The Tin Can Brother’s Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye. He was most recently seen onstage in Los Angeles and Chicago as the leading role in the world premiere of the new comedy musical Spies are Forever! (By Tin Can Brothers/TalkFine). Theatre credits include the 2014 Ovation Award nominated Les Miserables at Cathy Rigby’s La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, Damn Yankees with Richard Kind at Casa Mañana Theatre and the regional debut of The Light in the Piazza at Theatre Three in Dallas, Tx. He toured the country in the original sketch comedy show The JoMoShow, was company member of Second City’s TMI The Show sketch comedy troupe. Curt is also a writer, producer, director and is currently finishing up production of his directorial debut of his original horror/thriller feature film. He can be heard weekly sharing original stories and audio content on his podcast Story Matters. He has personally studied and coached with Gray Studios since 2012 and has also studied extensively at Upright Citizen’s Brigade. See a complete list of Curt’s credits on IMDB.

Mike is an LA based comedy writer, director and producer. He’s lived a lot of places, but mainly he’s from Texas.

After moving to LA, Mike interned at Abso Lutely Productions for Season 1 of The Eric Andre Show (Adult Swim). Since then, Mike has been fortunate to branch out into many roles in the industry. He has worked on many scales of network productions for companies like NBCUniversal, A&E, Riot Games, Funimation Entertainment and more. While freelancing to pay the bills, Mike was brought on board to direct one episode of the web-series, Buffering.

That led Mike to directing, co-writing, and co-producing the rest of the series. Buffering started with zero budget, but gained a very loyal and unique fan base. After the first two episodes of the series launched, the show was able to crowdsource over $17,000 to increase production quality. With each episode, Mike directed the show to higher creative and technical success, challenging what most people think is possible in low budget web-series production. Buffering now boasts almost 200,000 channel views, over 3,700 subscribers, and an active following across social media.

Mike is currently developing projects, shooting some, and editing for others. He currently serves as the head editor/cinematographer and consulting producer for Gray Studios Make-A-Movie program as well as their Demo Reel program. Since joining the team, he has helped grow the program nationwide, editing and producing over 70+ short films since 2015.

Rachid Fakhoury has been an instructor at Gray Studios for over 5 years. He is an actor, writer, director and artist from Detroit, Michigan. In addition to his acting work, he is the creator of a successful, ongoing comedy series in partnership with Funny or Die as well as numerous short films and ongoing sketch comedy. He is also an independent filmmaker. His short film, TrophyGirl, won Best in Genre and Best Editing at the Detroit 48 Hour Film Festival. He also produced the feature film CornerStore which was accepted into both the Peach Tree International Film Festival in Atlanta and the Pan-African festival in Los Angeles. He is one of the lead directors for the Make-A-Movie camp program where he has directed over 15 short films for the studio in the past two years.